Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-02
To-DAY's LEADING NEWS TOPICS.
FURTHER PLAIN WORDS.

quarter in Northern California comes news
of strong awakening and vigorous efforts
to induce the tide of immigration to turn
nocthward What is Colusa county doing?
Colusa county, the best of them all, is do
ing nothing. Colusa county is waiting.
presumably to see what will happen. If
there is not great awakening, and that,
too, soon, she will see great deal happen
that will make her one day weep unavail-
ingly over her inexcusable procrastina-
ton" What the Sun says of CoIusa is
true of some other counties we can name.
Let this be remembered; we are in the
settling period now; centers of trade and
population are being determined, and for
all time. The county and town that are
laggard now will remain so, and no after
activity will restore to them what it is about
to lose. The effort to invite to and fix
population in this section by desirable i'm
migration must have better support or it
will not succeed. In that effort every man
has part to perform, no matter how hum
bic his station in life. If he cannot give
one dollar, he can give one dime, and it
Will help; if the land owner cannot sacri-
flee one acre in ten to treble the value of
the remaining nine, he can sacrifice one
tenth of an acre, or some part of its value
1t is the union of small efforts that pro-
duces great results in these matters.
Booms" do not come, they have to be
brought; they have no momentum except
such as the people to be benefited give
them. A few immigration and home de-
velopment and improvement associations,
struggling along in feeble forcible way
are scattered here and there through the
north section; two that are alive and
"doing" we know Of, but even they need a
great deal more Of assistance.
There are scores of men of wealth whose
property and industries are-to be vastly
benefited by the filling up of this section,
who do not contribute to the focal immi
grafton efforts so -1uch as dime. These
citizens are impediments to progress; they
entertain grossly false ideas of the duty
they owe to society and themselves, or en-
terrain none at all. We need to hear some
plain preaching in all this section of the
State upon duty-doing." Instead of de-
crying new schemes, let us invite them
instead of suspecting" that progressive
men are "going to make something" by
their prominence in action and public
spirit, let us applaud them, knowing, as we
do, that public spirit cannot be moncpol-
lied, and that no man can benefit his own
business by schemes to "build up" the
country, without also benefting his neigh
bors.
A gentleman well versed in Southern
California methods, where everybody is for
everybody, not long since remarked:
=" Down there, if a citizen has a scheme to
advance the community, a hundred men
jump on and struggle to get into it; up
here, if one proposes scheme to develop
and people the country, the chances are
that hundred who ought to jump in
sheer off and whisper what's he going to
make-how much will it advertise him."
There is altogether too much truth.
though some exaggeration, in that rough
way of putting it.
What we need in Northern California
to supplement our magnificent climate, the
unequaled productions of our soil, the I'M
paralleled advantages Of location, is greater
contdencein each other and less suspicion
more investment of dimes for making the
section known, that dollars may return
an awakening to the truth that ereru man
and woman has a part to play in the
" boom" and duty to discharge to the
community. We need to clean up and
keep cleaned up; to plant trees without
asking will they pay?" to set out flower
ing shrubs without calculating moneyed
returns upon them; to cultivate lawns
without thought of other reward than
will flow from their contribution to ra-
tional pleasures and human enjoyment.
We need to abandon the Uttered front
farm yards, the air of shiftless content too
manifest in rural regions as well as towns
to give over haggling about prices and all
attempts to undercut in disposing of lands. |
When one SELLS let all the others con-
graduate him and the buyer, too; if a |
stranger comes into our section let us not |
cheaper it or any part of it; if he prices
" B's' land, let "C' beware of telling him |
he can do better bv him"
Nothing sooner drives the home-seeker
away than the discovery that people are
undertaking; it has already had that effect. |
On the contrary, BOOM will come by |
booming everything, by belittleing
nothing. We have truth to back us there |
Is no need for syllable Of exaggeration, |
but there is need for discretion, for
identifying and for the opening of the |
purses. As our contemporary, the Sun, |
well says: Every business man in the |
county should heartily support, by his in
fluence and his coin, all well directed |
efforts to advertise the county; such work
will broaden his field for trade, increase
his opportunities for profit and enhance
his business interests generally Every |
landowner in the county should in the |
same manner support such efforts; it will |
bring new era in the development of tie
county, firmly establish and increase land |
values. and add wonderfully to the general
ON FOREIGN WHEELS.
Says the San Francisco Chronicle: q No |